Final Q4 Review Flashcards
When bowel prolapses into the distal bowel and is propelled in an ante grade fashion, this condition is known as:
Intussusception
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis most commonly occurs most commonly occurs in:
Males, between 2-6 weeks, bile free projectile vomiting
In patients with appendicitis, the outer diameter should measure at greater than ___mm
7mm
Findings that may indicate appendicitis includes:
- free peritoneal fluid
- loculated fluid in lower abdomen
- appendicoloth
Children with intussusception exhibit:
- colicky abdominal pain
- vomiting
- bloody stools
The length of the pediatric gallbladder should not exceed
The length of the kidney
An abdominal ultrasound may be ordered in the neonate when jaundice persists beyond:
2 weeks
The most common causes of prolonged neonatal jaundice include:
Biliary atresia, hepatitis, choledochal cysts
The most common type of choledochal cyst is
Fusiform dilation of CBD
Infantile for of hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatoblastoma
The pylorus muscle connects the _____ with the duodenum
Antrum of the stomach
The most common acute abdominal disorder in early childhood
Intussusception
Condition may occur when fetus is stressed during a difficult delivery or during a hypoxia insult
Adrenal hemorrhage
Thin structure in neonate with echogenicity similar to or slightly greater than the normal liver parenchyma
Renal cortex
Most common cause of renal cystic disease in the neonate
MCDK
This structure should not be mistaken for dilated calyces or cysts in the infant?
Medullary pyramids
If the ipsilateral renal is absent or ectopic in location, the adrenal gland:
Remains in the renal fossa
Genitourinary problem commonly is commonly associated with prune belly syndrome
Uteral reflux
Neuroblastoma is typically a malignant tumor of the
Adrenal gland
The most common cause of bladder outlet obstruction in the male neonate is
PUV
The normal renal length in the pediatric patient varies with ____
Age
The left adrenal gland extends _____ to the kidney
Medially
The adrenal medulla in the neonate appears as an
Echogenic stripe
Obstruction that demonstrates a pelvocaliceal dilation without ureteral dilation
UPJ
Bilateral renal enlargement is seen with which condition
ARPKD
Peak age range for Wilms tumor
2-5 years
What 3 mechanisms account for development of hydrocephalus?
Outflow obstruction
Decreased absorption
Overprotection of CSF
Sonography of the neonatal brain is initially evaluated through the:
Anterior fontanelle
What structure produces 40% of the CSF
Choroid plexus
Convolutions on the surface of the brain are called
Gyri
The most common cause of congenital hydrocephalus is
Aqueductal stenosis
most likely the result of a germinal matrix hemorrhage
Subependymal cyst
The hip bones:
Ilium, ischium, pubis
Bending of hip backwards:
Extension
The articulation of the head of the femur with the acetabulum of the hip bone forms the
Hip joint
Indications for sonography of the neonatal hip
Rule out hip dysplasia
Breech birth
Abnormal hip examination
Sonographic examination of the infant hip is performed with a _____ transducer
Linear array
In the _______ maneuver, down and outward pressure is applied with the patient lying in a supine position with the hip adducted and flexed 90 degrees
Barlow
Moving sideways outward
Abduction
The physical signs of the development of a displacement of the hip
- extreme abduction
- shortening of femur
- asymmetric skin folds
Sonography is able to image the spinal cord because
Ossification of the posterior spinal elements is incomplete
Pathological fixation of the spinal cord in an abnormal caudal location is known as
Tethered cord
Indications for spinal sonography;
- back mass
- midline cutaneous deformities
- large collection of hair on the back
How many lumbar vertebrae are in the vertebral column
5
Typical signs of biliary atresia
- distended abdomen
- persistent jaundice
- dark urine
The presence of ______ is associated with biliary atresia
Polysplenia
Most common benign pediatric liver tumor is
Hemangioendothelioma
2nd most common malignant tumor in childhood
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Pediatric condition associated with the palpable “olive mass”
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
Individual pyloric muscle wall thickness of ___ or greater indicates pyloric stenosis
Greater than 3mm
The _____ is a long, tubular structure, which connects the dome of the bladder to the umbilicus
Urachus
Sonographic findings of a unilateral mass represents a “cluster of grapes” with no identifiable renal pelvis suggests
MCDK
Most common renal tumor of neonate
Mesoblastic nephroma
Most common disorder of neonatal brain is
Hydrocephalus/ventriculomegaly
Maneuver that requires neonatal hip to be flexed 90 degrees and thigh to be abducted
Ortolani
The _____ forms the bony spine, meninges, and muscle
Mesoderm
There are ____ cervical vertebrae
7
Middle layer of spinal cord
Arachnoid mater
Patient position for neonatal spine exam
Supine
Right hepatic lobe shouldn’t extend more than ____ below the costal margins in an infant
1cm
CBD should measure less than ____ in neonates and less than ____ in adults
1mm , 7mm
In infants the gallbladder should measure:
1.5cm-3cm
The sonographic findings of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis will demonstrate a channel length of _____ or greater
15mm
Neonatal hepatitis may reach the liver from:
Placenta, vagina, catheters
Acholic stools is a clinical sign of
Biliary atresia
Hypoplastic remnant of a biliary stucture appears as a small triangular structure seen anterior to the porta hepatis with this condition
Biliary atresia
Serum alpha fetoprotein will _____ with an adenoma of liver
Remain unchanged
Hepatoblastoma is associated with why syndrome?
Beckwith-widemann syndrome
Differential diagnosis or appendicitis
Intussusception
Ovarian torsion
Ovarian cyst
Reasons for non-visualization of the appendix:
Overlying bowel
Retrocecal position
Overdistended urinary bladder
Inflammed appendix is compressible/noncompressible
Noncompressible
Peristalsis is normally “not/is” seen in the appendix
Not
Sandwich sign appearance describes what condition
Intussusception
Which gastric bezoar is made up of vegetable matter
Phytobezoar
Which gastric bezoar is made up of hair balls
Trichobezoar
Urine refluxes into the ureter and kidney with severe swelling and twisting of the ureter in which grade of VUR?
Grade 5
Urine refluxes into the ureter and kidney with no swelling indicates which grade of VUR?
Grade 2
Results from an ectopic bladder insertion and cystic dilation of the distal ureter of a completely duplicated renal collecting system:
Ureterocele